BlueMax wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
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Are any of these (from the article) supermodels? What in their minds, makes them think they deserve to marry the "5 million" some were demanding???
The men were right in feeling used! The materialistic attitude was
appalling!!
Definitely undeserving -- and below average. Contrary to media stereotypes, China has many very attractive women; in the north, they all look half caucasian and are super tall anyway.
China, like the U.S., often encourages women to have an unreasonable sense of entitlement (of course, as in the U.S., many women do not succumb to the pressure). Despite what the article says about women having their pick, and despite China's unbalanced gender ratio, there's a growing phenomenon called the "sheung nu" or "left-behind woman" -- basically women in their 30's who are caught between their high standards and their low desirability.
Basically, the high-status, wealthy men often have something approximating a harem. The men without money get nothing, and many, many women who don't meet the perfect model of Chinese beauty and submissiveness refuse to date men who don't meet the perfect epitome of Chinese manhood and then end up in their 30's and 40's alone. The way Chinese culture teaches women to think, only supermodels have a chance.
If you're going to date Chinese women, as a Westerner, it's important to either be open to the "sheung nu" in their 30's or else to find the minority of women in their 20's who are rebellious against China's regressive attitudes about gender roles. There are definitely women in their 20's who will only date foreigners for this reason. But if you're going to China because you think Western "feminists" are annoying, you're not going to have much luck because the Chinese women willing to date foreigners are often quite feminist even by Western standards.